1) Between 1817 and the 1830s, Europeans in India felt their lives were particularly vulnerable to death largely because of

a) widespread famine in the north-east of India.
b) a series of devastating cholera epidemics.
c) the rapid spread of the bubonic plague.
d) the generally bad health of European settlers in hot climates.

2) Suttee, or the burning of wives on their husbands' funeral pyres, was a contentious issue for British authorities in India because

a) they considered the practice barbaric, and widows did not always consent to it.
b) the burning of too many bodies was thought to facilitate the spread of disease.
c) the settlers did not want to lose useful maids and housekeepers.
d) sutteei reinforced the inequalities in the caste system.

3) British famine relief workers were inclined to see Indians as improvident and irrational authors of their own misery because

a) Indians buried their dead in their own backyards.
b) many Indians refused to accept cooked food for caste reasons.
c) many Indian people didn't farm their land adequately.
d) Indians rioted over food and made raids on private grain stores.

4) In the 1860s the government of Bengal decided not to ban the practice of leaving the sick and elderly to die on the banks of the river Hooghly because

a) banning the practice would be a blatant disregard of local customs and beliefs
b) the river Hooghly had a calming effect on the sick and elderly.
c) resources were being used to enforce the ban on burying the dead in their own backyards.
d) the custom was a quick and efficient way of disposing of the dead.